Pour one out for all the people who can't stand playing Overwatch's most popular maps, because the next season is going to make it even harder to play on anything else.
Whenever a classic Overwatch map shows up as an option on the map voting screen, you know you're probably stuck with it. Most players prefer the likes of King's Row—a hugely popular map that's been in the game since launch—over the newer options, and, currently, it takes a lot of luck for the system to pick one with only a couple of votes. Starting next week with season 2, the already low odds of playing on an unpopular map will plummet: Blizzard is changing the rules so the map with the majority of the votes will automatically win.
"We don't want to entirely remove the joy of variety, but when most of the lobby wants something, we want to honor that," associate game director Alec Dawson wrote in a blog post today.
RIP to the King's Row haters, or anyone who actually enjoys making the trek between points on any of the gigantic Flashpoint maps. Overwatch is a payload and control point game now and you will lik...
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